Front End Engineer II, Campaign Management (Advertising)

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global e-commerce company in Toronto is seeking a Front End Engineer to develop self-service advertising tools. The ideal candidate should have 3+ years of experience, proficiency in JavaScript, CSS, and at least one front-end framework like React.js. The position emphasizes collaboration, quality, and performance in software development, aiming for continuous improvement and user-focused solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in software development or similar.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc.
• Strong understanding of Agile software development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement major deliverables end-to-end.
• Collaborate with engineers, UX designers, product managers, and teams.
• Mentor other software engineers to enhance skills and productivity.

Skills

JavaScript

CSS

React.js

Next.js

Problem solving

Agile engineering practices

Tools

HTML

TypeScript

Node

Job description

Amazon Worldwide Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. The Advertiser Experience (AX) group owns the experience of the advertiser from the moment they decide to engage with our platform through the full lifecycle of self-service advertising management. This includes campaign building and management, advertising analytics and visualizations, and insightful recommendations. We are passionate about building scalable, well-designed software services, and strive to constantly improve our technical foundation and user experience.

We are looking for a Front End Engineer to help us build the next generation of self-service advertising tools. We are seeking that rare combination of solid coding background, good design sense, an aptitude to apply technologies at scale, and a willingness to challenge the status quo and raise the bar on every service and feature we build.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, security and all the other things that make great software great. They will own the design and implementation of major deliverables end-to-end. This position requires collaboration with fellow software engineers, UX designers, product managers, technical program managers, and partner teams, necessitating a comfort-level with ambiguity and a desire to create, iterate and improve.

Key job responsibilities

• Minimum of 3+ years’ industry experience as a software development engineer, web development engineer, front end engineer or similar
• Proficiency in JavaScript and CSS
• Proficiency in at least one widely-used front end framework (e.g. React.js, Next.js, etc)
• Proficiency working in middle tier (API, back-end-for-front-end, or similar)
• Proficiency in at least one widely-used typed, OO language (e.g. Java, C#, Python)
• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities
• Deep knowledge and practice of software best practices for the full software development life-cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience mentoring other software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective and productive
• Strong advocacy of agile engineering practices
• Success with continuous integration and deployment practices

About the team

Advertising at Amazon is growing incredibly fast by providing efficient tools to drive sales for our vendors and sellers. These customers need tools that help them get the most from their advertising dollar in the least time. The Campaign Management team ensures Advertisers can easily use tools to launch their campaigns independently. We are looking for a pioneering and collaborative Front-End Engineer to work in our unique, product-focused “2-pizza team.” You will sit side-by-side with product owners, contributing to the new ideas that will become your projects. You will build applications and that provide the right help in the right place at the right time. If you are a Front-End Development Engineer who is interested in being close to the business problems, wants to broaden your leadership skills, and are passionate about delivering world class user experiences, we would love to talk to you.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of agile software development methodology experience
• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

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